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Finance partnerships: to bring together the “hard” and “soft” resources that must be blended to launch sustainable enterprises InvestorsDonorsCharities Services Entrepreneurs Capital Their Customers Public Purpose Specialty Organizations e.g., United Nations Foundation

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Program Partnerships: to bring together the governance, specialty expertise and local presence required InvestorsDonorsCharities Services Entrepreneurs Capital Their Customers Public Purpose Specialty Organizations e.g., UNEP, E+Co, ENDA and KITE for AREED

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Implementation Partnerships: to deliver the services and capital to entrepreneurs InvestorsDonorsCharities Services Entrepreneurs Capital Their Customers Public Purpose Specialty Organizations e.g., E+Co and ENDA in Senegal, KITE in Ghana, MFC in Mali, TaTEDO in Tanzania and CEEEZ in Zambia

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Business: Charcoal production from sawmill waste AREED Support: $73,000 loan + Enterprise Development Support Investment Activity: - Construction of 15 argentine brick kilns - Development of marketing and distribution network Status: Construction of kilns completed. Production, distribution and sales of charcoal started Feb 2003 Using a waste product for fuel and a conversion process twice as efficient as traditional methods, KBPS is proving that a clean energy enterprise can both solve an environmental problem and be good business. KBPS, Zambia

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VEV, Senegal Business: Servicing of wind-powered water pumps in rural Senegal. AREED Support: $17,000 loan + Enterprise Development Support Investment Activity: - Expanding inventory to shorten service times - Offering short-term credit to qualified clients Status: VEV has expanded its inventory and operations. Together, these services should help to ensure that most wind pumps in Senegal become - and remain - operational.

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Business: Own and operate multi-functional platforms in the Kita area of Mali. Platforms powered on Jatropha oil, derived from Pourghere nuts. AREED Support: $14,500 loan + Enterprise Development Support Investment Activity: - Own and operate two platforms; eventually expand. First commercial business and investment in a multi-functional platform in Africa. Bagani, Mali

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Why is this important? Network of partnerships need to link together different levels presently disconnected Different levels of “go between” value adding services are needed: - Specialized public purpose intermediaries, - Local intermediary organizations - Local SMEs - Customers The point of REED is to leave behind the discussions of “projects”, move to the creation of “portfolios” and reach the point where we are discussing “systems” of capital, products and services that are self-supporting. The key to getting there are sets of VALUE-ADDING PARTNERSHIPS